Garland Bayliss: Interview

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Date
2010-06-17
Main contributor
Bayliss, Garland
Summary
Garland Bayliss, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed June 17, 2010) Join the Navy and see the World! And indeed Lt. Commander Garland Bayliss of College Station saw most of it in his two-year service aboard Auxiliary Personnel 149, a Troop Transport Ship during World War II. It was a vessel built only as a transport and ferried up to 3,000 from one town or island to another. It took some back home from war and some from home into war. He was on the water both in the Pacific and Atlantic for two years and traveled some 125,000 Nautical Miles. In all Garland Bayliss spent 30 years in the Navy and the reserves and then later spent 34 years as professor of history at Texas A&M.
Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
Subjects
Bayliss, Garland; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945
Collection
Veterans of the Valley
Unit
Collections
Language
English
Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatementsorg/vocab/InC-EDU/10/
Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville

Creation/Production Credits

From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus

Local Note

reformatted digital
Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Bayliss_Garland-video

Access Restrictions

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